As we mentioned in our "Who are you guys?" page, our original founding members had already accumulated some wealth.  From years of research, which included the Kennedy family wealth, they collectively increased their wealth through the U.S. Stock Markets by hiring professional traders who only work for a small amount of people.  These professional traders limit the number of people they will work for because their continued success depends on their trades not being so large as to actually affect the movement of any market in general (remain versatile, nimple, and liquid).

Through this extremely simple investing program the original members AVERAGED BETWEEN 60-200% ANNUAL RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT.   Some months they lost 5-10%, but the next month they might get 10-40% positive return (we have detailed results showing more specifics in how this was accomplished).  Overall they would double their money every 6-18 months because near 80% of the months were winning months.  This took place through all the different rises and falls in the market, as profits can be made when stocks are going up AND going down.  Even in the 2008 plummeting of the Markets, the traders turned healthy profits (we share documentation of the trades).  A portion of this additional wealth was ear-marked as club dues for the "help projects" (such as Secret Angel types of activities).

As you also read in our uniquely interesting "Who are you guys?" story, our founding members all met in a support group for the terminally ill.  Though almost every single founding member has now passed on, they collectively gave permission to the Head of the organization/club to allow a limited number of individuals to gain access to the exact same simple investment process in return for the promise of helping to carry on KCHELP with a portion of the investment proceeds.  This way we can continue to do the good work of KCHELP without asking for help or donations ourselves.  

This creatively unique idea set apart KChelp from most charities and civic organizations who have to continually ask for help/donations to survive.  We instead showed a small number of people how to continually profit through this program and ask them to use part of this profit to continue to fund our programs.  We always want to give something with more value than what we ask for in return.

The people we will allow to duplicate this process will be those interested in helping without having to give away any of their already accumulated wealth.  Instead, we ask them to increase their wealth (either with or without our funding model) and then add to KChelp. These individuals can stay anonymous or go public with the help they are providing.  

MORE DETAILS  Initially, some of the founding members were without hesitation while some were VERY skeptical.  Strict safeguards were put in for the skeptics...and those are still in place for the few selected to participate. Here are some details that helped the skeptical members of our original group decide how they needed to be involved and what resulted from their participation:

• Each person had their own individual account with SEC-regulated and U.S.-based brokerage firms.  No one else needs to have any access to their account. Their accounts simply are set up by the brokerage firms to "mirror" the trades of private, professional traders.  These traders must trade only in Government-regulated U.S. Markets (such as the New York Stock Exchange). 
• The idea of using private, professional traders is not a new idea.  Small numbers of people have been obtaining/increasing wealth through these types of traders for decades.  To achieve the optimum success, these traders limit the amount of people they will allow to "mirror" their trades.  And obviously the best traders have to do little or no advertising of what they do. The technological advances of the past decade have just made it easier, more accurate, and more safe to "mirror" trades of professionals.
• The best traders would often make great money and then quit the business or just take some extended time off.  Also, there were many bad traders who would try to ride the coattails of the successful traders.  We always spent countless hours researching traders, setting strict standards about who we would trust and use.  We still continually research and keep a small pool of traders available for this program.  Through all of our research over the years we have even learned which traders are best in the different kinds of market swings and conditions.
• We would verify the results of all current and potential traders by both having members report their own individual results and having our administration periodically spot check the traders on a "live trade" basis. 
• We do believe the scary claim that between 50-80% of individual investors lose money in the markets.  That is why we don't try to do it ourselves and hire professionals who are in that other 20-50% range of always making money.  The concept itself is simple - limit the losses that you will have in the market and let the winners ride.  If someone can get it right at least 60% of the time, limit losses, and let the winners ride to gains between 10%-300%...you can see how this has been very lucrative over the years. 
• Though most of their processes for evaluating trades are complicated, we require the traders to explain their reasoning and educate those of us who have the interest and the time to listen.  Our original members varied greatly in their interest and knowledge of the details of trading.  Most ended up learning very little about trading and chose instead to spend more time on fun projects and philanthropic work.  We have always kept this program flexible - extremely simple and effortless for those who don't have the time or interest...transparent and knowledge-accessable for those that do. info@kchelp.org

THE PLAN FOR THE NEXT 24 MONTHS  Here is what we plan to do to carry on this entire wonderful process:

• Through 2010 we will allow a small number of individuals or groups to take advantage of this lucrative program in exchange for the promise of funding some of the former programs with a percentage of the proceeds.   (We had never set up a perpetual funding system before because this program was originally only intended to last a short time through the terminal life cycle of the founding members).
• These individuals and groups will include those from the Kansas City area who want to see Secret Angels/KCHELP continue AND those from other areas around the globe where the great concept of Secret Angels/KCHELP can be expanded and funded locally through this process.
• Some members will only want to be passive members and simply ear-mark a minimum percentage to be paid as dues.  Others will want to be more involved in former projects or creating new projects.  We will continue to allow members to be as active or as passive as each desires.  
• This process could also be used to perpetually fund other organizations and charities, as part of our goal is to help expand this program on a controlled and limited basis.  Board members and people who already financially support these other programs could use this process to replace or expand what they are already contributing.
• The plan is to have a limited number of people (we need quality, not quantity) who can have their own SEC-regulated account of at least $100K-$600K so that they can fund club dues at an average of $1-9K per month.  We could also have a second group of people in the $50-80K range who can fund $600-$3K per month.  
•  Even if someone or some group wanted to just give us the $500K-$900K upfront so that we could immediately start the perpetual-funding, we will still allow a limited number of others to participate.
• ...Also remember that the traders will limit the numbers of people involved so that they can take optimum advantage of profits in the markets without actually influencing the markets.  So we will only be able to spread this on a limited basis. 
• Investment clubs where people pool their funds will be allowed to participate if they take up no more than 3 SEC-regulated accounts per entity.  For those who wish to participate but don't have $40-100k to put in their own account, we will at your request exchange your contact information with others who might want to pool their funds into one account.  info@kchelp.org